GoFundMe’s Terms of Service prohibit raising money for the legal defense of an alleged violent crime. Except, of course, this guy.
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Days after explaining Rittenhouse ban, GoFundMe allows bail fundraiser for suspect in parade massacre
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This is a developing story. As of November 23, this fundraiser is still live on GoFundMe’s platform.
KENOSHA, WI – Just last week, GoFundMe went public to explain why they banned fundraisers for Kyle Rittenhouse from their platform:
“GoFundMe’s Terms of Service prohibit raising money for the legal defense of an alleged violent crime. In light of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, we want to clarify when and why we removed certain fundraisers in the past.”
So why is it that as of Tuesday night, a fundraiser is being allowed for the suspect in the Christmas parade massacre?
The $5 million dollar goal for the campaign was reportedly set by James Norton, who wrote:
Hello everyone,
On November 21st, 2021 our dear friend Darrell Brooks was arrested for allegedly driving his car into a parade, as someone who knows Darrell personally I can tell you that he would NEVER do such a thing and I know he is innocent of what he was charged with. Clearly there is more to the story the media is not telling us and I am seeking to raise the bail so Darrell can be released and speak his truth to his side of the story in this tragic situation that sees another black man behind bars in a purely political and racist trial.
There is no excuse for this continued treatment of black Americans by prosecutors around the country, everyone must be presumed innocent until proven guilty and we ask that he be treated equally as anyone else in this country would be treated and he should be released until found guilty.
#BLM
#IStandWithDarrell
#NoJusticeNoPeace
#RacismIsReal
Police say 39-year-old Darrell E. Brooks Jr. was arrested after he rammed his vehicle into a Christmas parade on the evening of November 21st, killing at least six people and injuring 40 others.
Brooks reportedly has an extensive rap sheet dating all the way back to 1999, and he recently posted bail on reckless endangerment charges.
He has been found to have multiple social media posts promoting anti-white racism, slamming the police and Trump, promoting Black Lives Matter and denouncing Kyle Rittenhouse.
Darrell Brooks, the man taken into custody over the #Waukesha Christmas parade mass casualty incident, is a registered sex offender in Nevada. He was convicted over having sex w/a child. In one of his now-deleted videos, he defended his actions, saying he was pimping the "hoe." pic.twitter.com/eBHSL0b7S4
— Andy Ngô ️ (@MrAndyNgo) November 22, 2021
Brooks is being questioned in connection with the incident involving a red Ford Escape that plowed through barricades and into the crowd at the Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, sparking panic and unleashing mass bloodshed.
Public records show Brooks has a significant criminal history in Wisconsin that spans well over two decades.
Just this past Friday, November 19th, he posted a cash bond in connection with charges including resisting or obstructing an officer, bail jumping, recklessly endangering safety with domestic-abuse assessments, disorderly conduct with a domestic-abuse assessment, and battery.
On Monday, November 22nd, the Milwaukee County District Attorney said that Brooks should never have been released on such an “inappropriately low” $1,000 cash bond given his past charges.
In the most recent case, dating from an incident on November 5th, the complainant told police that Brooks had deliberately tried to run her over with his car. He of course, pleaded not guilty to those charges. The DA added that investigators are conducting an internal review of the bail recommendation in that case.
BREAKING: Parade Killer Darrell Brooks Was Recently Arrested after RUNNING OVER WOMAN at a Gas Station Earlier This Month! — And Was Bailed Out for Only $1000 Last Week
BREAKING: Parade Killer Darrell Brooks Was Recently Arrested after RUNNING OVER WOMAN at a Gas Station Earlier This Month! -- And Was Bailed Out for Only $1000 Last Week ...Update: It Was Mother of His Child
— 1799
(@wa_kin_gup) November 22, 2021
In July 2020, police charged Brooks with three other felonies, including reckless endangerment and being a felon in possession of a firearm. He is also listed as a Tier 2 registered sex offender in Nevada.
Fox News reported that a background check from Wisconsin’s Department of Justice came back with over 50 pages of charges against Brooks, stretching back to the late 1990s. In 1999 he received his first felony conviction for taking part in an aggravated battery, for which he received three years of probation.
SENSITIVE CONTENT: Corporate Media does not want you to talk about the Christmas Parade Attack in Waukesha.
They want you to think that Darrell Brooks Jr was just “fleeing a knife fight” and that killing 5 and injuring 40+ was an accident
Join us here in ➣ @TheTrumpist pic.twitter.com/0mAQYjfoRX
— Pman-News2 (@News2Pman) November 22, 2021
He was convicted of obstructing an officer in 2003 and 2005. In 2002, he had another felony marijuana charge. In 2010, he pleaded no contest to felony strangulation charges after allegedly attacking a woman during an argument about phone calls.
In 2012, he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor bail jumping and marijuana charges. A year earlier, in 2011, he pleaded guilty to felony marijuana charges and resisting arrest.
According to court documents, Brooks also appeared to have used the pseudonym “Math Boi Fly” in music videos and is also associated with the aliases Darrell Eugene Brooks and Quinton Feilcein.
Waukesha Christmas horror: Milwaukee DA announces internal review of Darrell Brooks bail recommendation…
Waukesha Christmas parade horror: Milwaukee DA announces internal review of Darrell Brooks bail recommendation
— SnewsHound (@SnewsHound) November 22, 2021
Brooks appears to have used a number of other stage names throughout the course of his aspiring rap career, including “Jay Fly,” “Math Bio,” and “B.L.A.$.” A reverbnation page linked to Brooks via email and Twitter accounts describes him as “the next breakout artist from the Midwest” who’s “finally ready to put Milwaukee back on the map.”
Reportedly, one of Brooks’ videos, which has since been removed from YouTube, showed a red Ford SUV that resembles the one seen plowing into the crowd at the Christmas parade on Main Street in Waukesha.
Witnesses described the chaos of blood and bodies thrown into the air and strewn about the street before bystanders rushed to try and help victims as paramedics raced to the scene. Since the incident, local authorities have set up a temporary memorial for the victims at Veterans Park, located just west of the scene.
Former President Donald Trump released a statement about the Waukesha tragedy, calling it “devastating, horrible and very very sick. He added:
“My heart goes out to the people of this great, beautiful, and hardworking community. We must find answers to this terrible crime, and stop these violent and depraved acts from happening again. I am with you Waukesha and always will be!”
Now back to the crowdfunding hypocrisy.
GoFundMe removed online fundraisers aimed at assisting Kyle Rittenhouse with legal expenses during his trial while permitting fundraising for the legal defense of Black Lives Matter activists and a convicted robber serving decades in prison.
GoFundMe will allow Kyle Rittenhouse fundraising following acquittal. (Mashable) #SocialMedia
GoFundMe will allow Kyle Rittenhouse fundraising following acquittal pic.twitter.com/jUjWESQfr0
— James Gingerich, @Expeflow #WorkEasier #RPA (@jamesvgingerich) November 21, 2021
The crowdsourced fundraising service sought to justify its early decision last year to terminate campaigns for Kyle Rittenhouse in a statement after the teen shooter was acquitted of all charges Friday:
“Once charges for a violent crime were brought against Kyle Rittenhouse in 2020, GoFundMe removed fundraisers that were started for the defendant’s legal defense.
We did this as part of our regular monitoring efforts; in addition to those fundraisers, our Trust & Safety team removed hundreds of other fundraisers between August and December 2020 — unrelated to Rittenhouse — that we determined were in violation of this long-standing policy.”
GoFundMe said the funds could not be collected for Rittenhouse because he was not yet been acquitted of all charges in the shooting death of two men and wounding of a third during a violent, anti-police uprising in Kenosha, Wisconsin last year.
“If someone is acquitted of those charges, as Rittenhouse was today, a fundraiser started subsequently for their legal defense and other expenses would not violate this policy.
“A fundraiser to pay lawyers, cover legal expenses or to help with ongoing living expenses for a person acquitted of those charges could remain active as long as we determine it is not in violation of any of our other terms and, for example, the purpose is clearly stated, and the correct beneficiary is added to the fundraiser.”
GoFundMe’s Terms of Service prohibit raising money for the legal defense of an alleged violent crime. In light of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, we want to clarify when and why we have removed certain fundraisers in the past:
GoFundMe Policy on Fundraisers for the Legal Defense of Violent Crimes
— GoFundMe (@gofundme) November 19, 2021
The site went on to claim that it continuously monitors the site for fundraising that violates its terms of service and removes any account that violates those terms.
They also admit that fundraisers that receive widespread attention receive added monitoring to ensure the intended recipient will receive the funds and that the collection does not violate the terms of service.
Remarkably, the same level of “monitoring” is not being done in some circumstances.
For example, despite claiming “GoFundMe’s Terms of Service prohibit raising money for the legal defense of an alleged violent crime,” the site continues to permit funds to be crowdsourced for Dominique Maxey, an alleged bank robber.
The fundraiser, titled “CHARGED WITH BANK ROBBERY DURING GEORGE FLOYD RIOT,” is being organized by Maxey to help pay his defense attorney. Maxey wrote:
“I Created this GoFundMe to Help me get a Federal Defense Attorney. My public defender stated during my court case that I have a mental illness due to some misinformation he received.
I have stated on my behalf I’m Dominique Malik Maxey beneficiary of the trust and I wish to represent myself. But I’m unable to represent myself until I prove to the court that I am competent enough to do so.
“In the meantime, I need a(n) attorney that is fully devoted to me, my innocence and my freedom. So that he/ she can provide support, and legal advice to ensure that my record remains clean and that I don’t spend one day in jail or in a psych ward.”
The campaign has raised $140 toward a goal of $40,000.
Your garbage website is actively soliciting legal defense cash for violent BLM activists facing charges for felony rioting, assaulting cops, and—I kid you not—“bank robbery during [a] George Floyd riot,” not to mention the countless rioter bail funds you’re currently hosting.
https://t.co/MOCp6WjItK pic.twitter.com/v3gpKxaHew
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) November 19, 2021
Editor note: In 2020, we saw a nationwide push to “defund the police”. While we all stood here shaking our heads wondering if these people were serious… they cut billions of dollars in funding for police officers. And as a result, crime has skyrocketed – all while the same politicians who said “you don’t need guns, the government will protect you” continued their attacks on both our police officers and our Second Amendment rights.
And that’s exactly why we’re launching this national crowdfunding campaign as part of our efforts to help “re-fund the police”.